Roberta Rubenstein

Professor
Department of Literature

• Additional Positions at AU

  Professor of Literature
  
• Professor Rubenstein's primary teaching interests include Modernist fiction, literature by Modernist and contemporary women writers, and feminist literary theory. She has published more than thirty articles and book chapters, as well as five books and one monograph: The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (1979); Boundaries of the Self: Gender, Culture, Fiction (1987); Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction (2001); Reminiscences of Leonard Woolf (2005 - monograph); and Virginia Woolf and the Russian Point of View (2009). She has co-edited, with her husband, AU Professor Charles R. Larson, an anthology of short stories, Worlds of Fiction (1993; 2nd ed. 2001). At American University, she has been honored with several awards for teaching and scholarship, including the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching (twice) and its Senior Scholar Award. She was named American University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year in 1994.

• Degrees

  Ph.D. in English Literature, University of London
  B.A. in English, University of Colorado